News

Police credit a call from an alert tipster in southeast Washington on Tuesday morning for the capture of a prisoner who escaped custody at a northern Virginia hospital hours earlier with a guard's gun.

Lawyers for Dzkokhar Tsarnaev rested their case in his federal death penalty trial Tuesday after presenting a brief case aimed at showing his deceased older brother was the mastermind of the 2013 terror attack.

Entertainment

Justin Bieber's outlandish behavior wasn't the only thing that made its way into his Comedy Central roast - Selena Gomez had her fair share of zingers, too. The Times' Christy Khoshaba has the details .

Talking about her latest movie 'While We're Young,' actress Naomi Watts admits that aging is 'tough' and she jokes that her and Ben Stiller relate to their characters - a middle aged couple trying to stay young and hip.

Actors Evan Rachel Wood and Michael Thomas Grant chatted with theater critic Chris Jones last week about "For The Record: Dear John Hughes," a theatrical concert in which they both starred at the Broadway Playhouse.

Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of the television series “Designing Women” and book writer of the new musical comedy “First Wives Club,” chatted with theater critic Chris Jones last week about the new show, currently running in Chicago.

Stephen Wolfram, CEO and founder of Wolfram Research, sponsored a Pi party at SXSW to celebrate the once-a-century Pi moment. SXSW attendee Gary Garon, from San Jose, Ca., tells Blue Sky's John Carpenter the reason he is among today's celebrants.

SXSW is far from the days of being edgy and new. But Chicagoans Harper Reed, Jimmy Chamberlin and Dan X. O'Neil say it's no less essential when you're launching a digital product or looking to recruit tech-savvy hires.

Blue Sky reporter Amina Elahi tries her hand as a crew member of Slice, a GrubHub restaurant-simulation program that puts employees in the roles of restaurant workers and diners. "It was tougher than expected," she says. Check out the video.